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Commercial systems built today are increasingly using XML technologies for storing any amount of text or ...

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. It is considered an extensible language because its users define their own elements. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of structured data across different information systems, particularly via local networks and the Internet. Hundreds of thousands of readers learned HTML and XML from Elizabeth Castro. This ...

Updated to teach the most current XML standards, this book uses real-world case studies and a practical, step-by-step approach to teach XML.
Tutorial 1: Creating an XML Document
Tutorial 2: Working with Namespaces
Tutorial 3: Validating an XML Document
Tutorial 4: Working with Schemas
Tutorial 5: Working with Cascading Style Sheets
Tutorial 6: Working with XSLT and XPath
Tutorial 7: Creating a ...

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XML, the Extensible Markup Language, is everywhere: the syntax of choice for newly designed document formats across almost all computer applications. Now used daily by developers, XML is living up to its reputation as one of the most important developments in document interchange in the history of computing.
A perennial bestseller, the handy XML Pocket Reference from O'Reilly has been revised ...

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This thoroughly class tested text and online tutorial gives a complete introduction to the essentials of the XML standard. It will teach students how to apply web technologies to develop XML based web applications. Through the book, the student will build applications that work together to construct interesting and ...

See how XML works for business needs and RSS feeds
Create consistency on the Web, or tag your data for different purposes
Tag - XML is it! XML tags let you share your format as well as your data, and this handy guide will show you how. You'll soon be using this markup language to create everything from Web sites to business forms, discovering schemas and DOCTYPES, wandering the Xpath, teaming ...

XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference is the only authoritative reference on XPath, a sub-language within XSLT that determines which part of an XML document the XSLT transforms. Written for professional programmers who use XML every day but find the W3C XPath specifications tough to slog through, this book explains in everyday language what every construct in the language does and how to use it. It ...

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'XML projects succeed or fail for many reasons other than XML. David's book goes beyond the angle brackets, giving a lot of information people need to know when planning and implementing an XML project, when choosing XML technologies, and when betting on XML standards.'
--Dr. Ron Daniel, Principal, Taxonomy Strategies, former acting chair of the XML Linking working group and member of ...

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What is this book about?
Beginning XML, 3rd Edition, like the first two editions, begins with a broad overview of the technology and then focuses on specific facets of the various specifications for the reader. This book teaches you all you need to know about XML: what it is, how it works, what technologies surround it, and how it can best be used in a variety of situations, from simple data ...

Summary As XML continues to mature, developers need to understand how this standard and its related technologies are revolutionizing software development. XML Family of Specifications: A Practical Guide provides a complete roadmap for understanding how XML, XSL, XML Schema, and related specifications interlink to create powerful, real-world applications. Both a reference and tutorial, ...

Microsoft's .NET Framework acts as a platform for building XML Web services, reusable components that can be shared across multiple Web sites. XML Web Services Professional Projects provides Web developers and IT professionals with information on the basics and intricacies of Web services. It offers coverage of topics such as the SOAP protocol, deploying and publishing XML Web services, and Web ...

Hack Proof Your XML Documents! XML is quickly becoming the universal protocol for transferring information from site to site via HTTP. Whereas HTML will continue to be the language for displaying documents on the Internet, developers will find new and interesting ways to harness the power of XML to transmit, exchange, and manipulate data using XML. Validation of the XML document and of the ...

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XSLT Quickly is your 'cookbook' for learning advanced techniques of XSLT as well as a reference for the tasks you'll use most often. This book will prove to be an essential element in the libraries of XML programmers worldwide.

With the development of Microsoft's .NET initiative, industry experts are predicting a new dawn in the age of web development and services. This new strategy specifically addresses the need for common ways to develop server-based applications whose clients can be any system that has Internet access. By using .NET technologies and practices, developers can build solutions that aggregate services ...

Summary You've heard the hype and the excitement - now here's a book that brings practicality to the party. In context, but avoiding lengthy history lessons, we show you why XML is great to get into, and how to get up and running with it quickly. Using XML appropriately can make your markup future-proof and standards-compliant, enhance accessibility and usability, and allow data to be shared ...

About the book Ken Abbott's Voice Enabling Web Applications: VoiceXML and Beyond is a comprehensive introduction to the concepts, strategies, architectures, and implementation techniques underlying the development of voice-enabled Internet applications. Comprehensive coverage of VXML's syntax, concepts, and strategies Includes a hands-on tutorial and a sample packaged, multi-tier Web ...

About the book XML Programming Using the Microsoft XML Parser is written for programmers interested in XML development using Microsoft technologies. Coupling valuable discussion of the Microsoft XML parser, Windows platform, and XML development software with the numerous core XML technologies, including XSLT, XPATH, SAX, DOM, XML Schema, and SOAP, this book steps beyond the mainstream focus ...

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The Book of SAX is a complete guide to using SAX. The book's condensed tutorial format begins with the minimal information required to build a functioning SAX application and progresses through more advanced (and less frequently used) concepts until the entire API has been explained. The heart of the tutorial will be the evolution of a sample application that fully exploits the features of SAX ...

Book overview The XML family of technologies, by its very nature, is fluid and flexible. It provides developers with an array of choices for integrating XML into their IT solutions. However, as with any new technology, one needs to watch out for potential 'traps' when working with XML. Many developers end up with solutions with poor performance and highly unmaintainable code, along with high ...

What does this book cover? The History of XQuery, its predecessors and how to work with the current set of XQuery documents The XQuery Data Model, Formal Semantics and Use Cases XQuery from a SQL perspective XQuery from an XSLT/XML perspective The current set of XQuery implementations available today, in particular Microsoft's .NET classes for XQuery and FatDog's Java ...

What does this book cover? An overview of electronic business and the interrelation of the ebXML framework components Modeling business processes and documents with ebXML BPSS, UMM, and XML Schemas Defining trading profiles and setting up collaborative agreements with ebXML CPP/CPA Attracting and discovering business partners using ebXML Registry/Repository or UDDI Creating business ...

MSXML (Microsoft XML Core Services) version 4.0 is a free, feature-rich server component for all types of XML processing, including XML, XSLT, and Schemas. It has comprehensive support for W3C and other major specifications, as well as many proprietary enhancements. This makes MSXML 4.0 a useful and robust tool that can be used as the processing engine behind a wide range of XML-based ...

What does this book cover? An overview of the development and deployment environments available VoiceXML 1.0 syntax tutorial Grammar use, including JSGF and Nuance GSL syntax Use of VoiceXML with XSLT, ASP, JSP, and PHP Nuance Speechobjects The future of VoiceXML technologies, including VoiceXML 2.0 Book overview VoiceXML brings the power of Voice to the Web - the information we are ...

What does this book cover? XML syntax and writing well-formed XML Using XML Namespaces Transforming XML into other formats with XSLT XPath and XPointer for locating specific XML data XML Validation using DTDs and XML Schemas Manipulating XML documents with the DOM and SAX 2.0 SOAP and Web Services Displaying XML using CSS and XSL Incorporating XML into tradition databases and n-tier ...

Professional XML Schemas What does this book cover? A complete guide to XML Schema Syntax Using XML Schema built-in types, and deriving new types Working with XML Schemas and XML Namespaces Creating identity and uniqueness constraints Good schema design, illustrated in a number of different areas Working with schemas and XSLT Writing XML Schemas for working with SOAP ...

What does this book cover? Reading and writing XML DOM navigation and XSL transformations of XML Validating and serializing XML MSXML vs System.Xml ADO.NET and ASP.NET XML support Web Services and SOAP Remoting XML code documentation Book overview XML is now an established technology for the description and transportation of data, and has made a major impact on ...

This is the second version of this best-selling book, and as such reflects recent changes in the XSL specification and recent developments in XSLT parsers. No other book solely dedicated to XSLT is as comprehensive and practical.

Book overview The Extensible Markup Language (XML) has emerged as nothing less than a phenomenon in computing. It is a concept elegant in its simplicity driving dramatic changes in the way Internet applications are written. This book is a revision to our popular first edition book as many technologies have been superseded by later versions, or made obsolete by newer technologies. This book ...

Metadata is data that describes content. It enables computers to recognize content (such as a web site) and make decisions based upon that. This, for example, makes searching and indexing far easier as the search engines will only need to analyze the metadata, not the data itself. It also has immense implications in the world of e-commerce - XML Schemas being the important topic here. ...

What does this book cover? How to handle translating an XML structure to a relational database model Rules for modeling XML based upon a relational database structure Common techniques for storing, transmitting, and displaying your content Data access mechanisms that expose relational data as XML How to use related techniques when processing your XML data XML support in SQL Server 2000 ...

XSL is a vital companion to XML and is used for two main purposes: to format or style XML data so that it can be displayed in a browser, and to transform XML data. XLS can also be used to transform XML into other test formats, such as HTML. The title is written in the Programmer to Programmer style and it includes several tips and shortcuts.

What Is XHTML? XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language) 1.0 superseded HTML 4.01 in January 2000 as the next generation W3C standard for marking up web pages. XHTML offers the functionality and widespread acceptance of HTML with the extensibility and the new audience that XML offers. No longer will multiple versions of the same page be needed for varying user agents - one XHTML page will ...

What does the book cover XML syntax and writing well formed XML Using namespaces in XML Adding style with CSS and XSL Transforming XML into other formats with XSLT XPath and XPointer for locating specific XML data XLink for linking XML and non-XML resources Manipulating XML documents programmatically with the DOM and SAX XML validation using DTDs and Schema Incorporating XML into ...

This book covers: How to design the flow of data through an enterprise application How to use BizTalk Server to integrate applications How to translate between document formats How to monitor and track messages in the application How BizTalk allows you to link heterogenous platforms together, smoothly and easily BizTalk runs on Windows 2000 Server and is capable of integrating with ...

XSL (eXstensible Stylesheet Language) is the styling language to match XML. At the most basic level it allows the programmer to manipulate XML on a template model- XSL provides the template to fit XML data into for displaying on a web page. However, it is capable of much more than that, and allows programmers to selectively query, display and manipulate data, perform scripting-like operations on ...

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) has emerged in just a few short years as nothing less than a phenomenon in computing. It is a concept elegant in its simplicity driving dramatic changes in the way Internet applications are written. Book Overview Professional XML is a broad compendium that investigates and describes how the total XML concept will work for programmers. It's the next edition ...

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Book Description 'XML in easy steps' instructs the reader how to create valid, well-formed, XML documents to describe a variety of data. It contains separate chapters on all major features of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), together with the associated technologies of Document Type Definition (DTD), XMLSchema, eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), XPath, XLink, and XPointer, There are code ...

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Now you can learn how to use XML in just one weekend! Friday evening you?l read about the history of this language and see examples of its applications. On Saturday, you?l break down the elements of XML and learn how to use them correctly. You will also discover how to use XML ...

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If you're an experienced Office user who wants to use XML to unlock data, or one of the many IT professionals who wants to learn about XML implementation in Office 2003, then this is the ideal book for you! No prior XML or programming experience is necessary. (But optional code snippets and downloadable examples help illustrate the advanced tips, tricks, and techniques in the book.) Popular ...

XML Programming: Web Applications and Web Services with JSP and ASP provides a fast-moving introduction to the XML family of technologies for programmers. Although written with a focus upon JSP- and ASP-based XML solutions, the book presents the material from a language-independent point of view that benefits all developers, whatever their language. The code is written to be readable by all. ...

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An introduction to XML basics essential to any developer, this handbook defines XML syntax through the use of elements and attributes and explains how an XML structure can be enforced through the use of DTDs and Schemas. Advanced topics, including web services, XML security, and programming with the DOM and SAX parsers, are also addressed. The various products that use XML ...

tHIS GUIDE COVERS EVERY ASPECT OF THE 'html FOR TELEPHONY' THAT IS REVOLUTIONIZING THE INDUSTRY. dO YOU KNOW TELEPHONY BUT NEED TO LEARN ABOUT THE wEB? dO YOU KNOW THE wEB BUT NEED TO LEARN TELECOM? aRE YOU A wEBMASTER WHO NEED TO TELEPHONY-ENABLE YOUR SITE? iF YOU ANSWERED 'yES' TO ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS, THEN THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU. bOB eDGAR EXPLAINS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND AND ...

This comprehensive reference guide to XML covers the latest versions of the XML specification and related specifications, tips, techniques, and examples. Written to improve your productivity, this book addresses topics from markup and DTD design, to the most popular XML-based applications and the latest software tools available for working with XML.